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SidFudd, 9 days ago to random

And don't miss this old blog entry by light tech Nook Schoenfeld, with stories from the film production and the tour including how his dog accidentally joined David onstage for "Psycho Killer" on opening night in Vermont.
https://plsn.com/featured/featured-slider/old-man-musings-stop-making-sense/
#TalkingHeads #StopMakingSense #Pantages

SidFudd, 9 days ago to random

I, who took the money away. #TalkingHeads #StopMakingSense #Pantages

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SidFudd, 11 days ago to random

Cornell professor and all-around swell guy Jeremy Braddock has written a fantastic scholarly appraisal of the Firesign Theatre's classic albums and why they're important, as literature, innovative sound design, and surrealist brain candy. His research skills are impeccable - I've been listening to Firesign for decades and Jeremy's work here has me looking at their work in a totally new light. Coming in October, now available for pre-order!

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398528/firesign

SidFudd, 11 days ago to random

There's a show about Tom Lehrer called "Tom Lehrer Is Teaching Math and Doesn't Want to Talk to You" playing in London through next Sunday, and I hope it comes to Los Angeles soon.

Delighted to say I have actually talked to Tom once; maybe 15 years ago Firesign Theatre was on tour and I rang him up in Santa Cruz to say he was on the comp list for their San Jose gig (don't know if he came; I doubt it!).

h/t @pluralistic

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/22/my-songs-spread-like-herpes-why-did-satirical-genius-tom-lehrer-swap-worldwide-fame-for-obscurity

textfiles, 29 days ago to random

SidFudd, 1 month ago to random

@pluralistic I have a fun mystery for the Cory-nauts.

Don Joyce of Negativland liked to tape Art Bell. I found a show where Art is talking to Whitley Streiber (“Communion”) and taking calls when something strange happens: every 45 seconds, they start hearing a phone auto-dialer.

Art is flummoxed: “Somebody's breaking in on our line…this last half hour is the most puzzling I've ever done on radio.”

I checked the phone tones and the number is: 1-800-468-3445

When Googled, there are no results.

SidFudd, 1 month ago to random

This @pluralistic paragraph is good for a laugh more bitter than radish-flavored coffee with dandelion greens.

Sometimes it's hard to tell who the enemy of the whole world is, and then sometimes, as a Navy officer told the newsreels in 1946 as he attempted to justify nuking the Bikini Islands, "The way is clear, the challenge strong, the duty inescapable." Please join me in gathering up every human being involved in #PrivateEquity and shooting them into the sun. 🚀 🌞

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in

SidFudd, 1 month ago to random

FCC's Rum Cured Crooks. Tagging @pluralistic because I just know he's going to need this for a collage someday

#SometimesACigarIsJustACrook

mrcompletely, 2 months ago to music

Gilbert Shelton/Hub City Movers "Set Your Chickens Free"

long shot - anyone have a better recording/transfer of THIS version (the original) of this song - not any of the other fine versions out there, lovely as they are. If so, please share in whatever format you can, thx

(lyricist Gilbert Shelton is the creator/artist of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but they have nothing to do with this song really)

#music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoYJh6ZRj8o

SidFudd, 2 months ago to random

WonderCon, March 30: Beetlejuice with the cast of Haunted Mansion. Attn @pluralistic

SidFudd, 2 months ago to random

Do Canadians have a game where they cold-call the serial number on a dollar bill? Because this one's in Kalamazoo.

SidFudd, 3 months ago to random

@ct_bergstrom Hi Carl! Greetings from Burbank, home of many crows, mourning doves, sparrows, mockingbirds, and feral parrots. I love crows & say hi to them every chance I get. Can you give me a thumbnail description of the difference between ravens, crows, and rooks?

SidFudd, 3 months ago to random

@pluralistic I hope this scam is real…and driven by ChatGPT.

"[sobbing hysterically] MOM I'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED, THEY'RE GONNA KILL ME UNLESS I WIRE $10,000 TO THIS NUMBER IN MEXICO"

"Oh honey, that's awful! Before I send the money can you do me a favor and list every variety of quark and their corresponding antiparticles?"

"[still sobbing hysterically] I'D BE GLAD TO, THERE ARE SIX QUARKS, UP DOWN CHARM STRANGE TOP AND BOTTOM. ANTIQUARKS HAVE EQUAL PROPERTIES BUT OPPOSITE SIGNS—"

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SidFudd, 3 months ago to random

My phone rang the other day and a voice said: "I've got good news and bad news. Whaddya want first?"

I said "Gimme the bad news."

"The bad news is that humanity is basically paranoid and hostile and addicted to expediency, and one day it will use up all available resources and wipe itself out, and leave the Earth to the squirrels."

"What's the good news?"

"My name's Daisy, and I'm a squirrel."

pluralistic, 3 months ago to random

Garbage day at the old Duchamp house.

SidFudd, 4 months ago to random

It's #ShroveTuesday and so you may wish to enjoy these very timely very surreal very psychedelic very WTF ads for International House of Pancakes, real non-fake ads, written and produced by the #FiresignTheatre in 1969. Hit tracks 27, 28, 29, and 30.

https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/jack-poet-loves-you

SidFudd, 4 months ago to random

America only needed one song, and #MojoNixon gave us that song. I had a show on a streaming internet station, so I could play it. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rLHYsQHgc

#YouOnlyLiveOnceSoOffWithThemPants

SidFudd, 4 months ago to random

Here's a fun thing to do: repost this, or comment on it, and then think about it every time you ever repost anything or comment on anything for as long as you live.

h/t @pluralistic

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

SidFudd, 4 months ago to random

@pluralistic Two news links I saw today confirmed rent is unaffordable for most Americans (spoiler: me too). Neither article explains why. Would love it if you could help us name the perp!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/25/rent-housing-costs/
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds

SidFudd, 4 months ago to random

Negativland were guests this morning on our Uncle Ken's show on WFMU! A truly classic conversation about the Right using culture jamming for evil, AI companies putting Fair Use in an acid bath, getting the dead members of the band back into their live shows thanks to old tapes, and the Weatherman's fave organ records. Here's the show archive:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136214

SidFudd, 4 months ago to random

"...student loan forgiveness...we could just as easily call that market correction, but there’s something about the word forgiveness that implies judgment."

I never considered how rancid that phrase is. It's not cancellation, or deletion; it's "forgiveness". You erred. We're forgiving you. But it's perfect from the bank's point of view, because everyone coming to them for a loan has committed the moral error of not already having the money 😂

https://electricliterature.com/molly-mcghee-jonathan-abernathy-you-are-kind-interview-debut-novel-book-debt/

h/t @pluralistic

bourgwick, 5 months ago to vinylrecords

#NowPlaying - on my way back to coherence, hopefully, indicated by the thought that i would like to acquire the "happy together" single (in mono) & play it over & over & over & over & over & over. @vinylrecords